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LEWIS ROTE, 0F NEWARK, NEVWI'JERSE? Lettersf'qtent Nef? 9,780, dated July 7, 18.68; antedateol July 2, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT 1N UMBRELLAS.

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Be it known that I, LEWIS ROTH, ofy Newark, in the 4county of Essex, invented a new Improvement in Umbrella-Frames exact description of the same, reference 'bein ence marked thereon.

My invention consists, rst, in attaching -to the arm A of an umbrella, a second brace,.B;

Figure 1 shows the arm extended, as when the urnbrlalla is raised,l Figure 2,. as when it is closed'. i When the unibrella is raised, the slide G moves up the stad' S -to the rest H, at which point it strikes the thimble E, or its equivalent, to which the inner end of the brace B is fast, and, the other end being f ast to the arm above the regular brace I,'a.dds mat erial strength to the arm, making it impossible for anuihrella to be, turned wrong side out by the wind". I

` VI am aware Athat double-braces have been used, as seen in a French entirely unlike mine. In that, the braces came together at the arm, for tlxepurpoeV of self-closing, :which isthe object of it. Mine is ad I claimvthe arrangement of the brace B, extending from thet brace I, in the manner and for the purpose named. i

, l i LEWIS ROTH. Witnesses: y

' HonAcE HARRIS, L, J. BAKER.

and State icf'New Jersey', have' and .I do hereby declare that the following is afull and g hadrto the accompanying drawings,`an`cl to thei'letters of referpatent, but the principle of that is and one is attached to springs at the sta, ded-to increasev the strength. j Y himble'E to the arm A, above the regulan l 

